Sociology and social work

The effect of experimenter evaluation on self-evaluation within the social loafing paradigm

Article Abstract:

Social inactivity can be overcome by self-evaluation according to a research conducted on 112 male and female undergraduate students. The limits and the willingness for self-evaluation were judged on the basis of the conditions the participants were willing to work in. The participants welcomed self-evaluation but shunned any evaluation made by the researchers in the present experiment. The capacity for self-evaluation is a strong, but unreliable, source of inspiration. The concern over the experimenter's evaluation distracts the participants enough for them to overlook the possibility of self-evaluation.

Author: Szymanski, Kate, Harkins, Stephen G.

Publisher:Academic Press, Inc.Publication Name:Journal of Experimental Social PsychologySubject:Sociology and social workISSN:0022-1031Year:1993

Social aspects, Self-evaluation, Self evaluation

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Majority and minority influence using the afterimage paradigm: a series of attempted replications

Article Abstract:

A series of five tests attempted to replicate a 1980 study which allegedly demonstrates perceptual conversion by a minority but not by a majority in a task involving the assessment of so-called afterimages. Subjects of the experiments were shown a series of blue slides. They were asked to identify the color of the slide, either green or blue. After looking at the blue side they viewed a white screen, after which they were asked to identify what they saw, also called the afterimage. Results of the tests are discussed.

Author: Martin, Robin

Publisher:Academic Press, Inc.Publication Name:Journal of Experimental Social PsychologySubject:Sociology and social workISSN:0022-1031Year:1998

Between-subject or within-subject measures of regret: Dilemma and solution

Article Abstract:

The 'action effect', according to which actions produce more regret than failures to act, is shown to disappear in between-subject designs and it is argued that the disappearance is due to the inability of regret scales to capture differences in perceived regret when used in between-subject designs. A new method, the common reference method, is proposed in order to overcome this problem.

Author: Jie Hai Zhang, Walsh, Clare, Bonnefon, Jean-Francois

Publisher:Academic Press, Inc.Publication Name:Journal of Experimental Social PsychologySubject:Sociology and social workISSN:0022-1031Year:2005